An Orlando police officer helped resuscitate a 4-year-old boy who took off his life-preserver and nearly drowned in his grandmother's pool over the weekend, according to an agency report released Monday. When Officer Stephen Wilson arrived at a Jeannine Court home Sunday afternoon, Tayte Standridge was unconscious, his pulse erratic and his skin turning gray. Wilson performed CPR on Tayte and the boy began to cry and take several full breaths, the police report said. As Tayte started breathing, paramedics arrived.

An Orlando police officer helped resuscitate a 4-year-old boy who took off his life-preserver and nearly drowned in his grandmother's pool over the weekend, according to an agency report released Monday. When Officer Stephen Wilson arrived at a Jeannine Court home Sunday afternoon, Tayte Standridge was unconscious, his pulse erratic and his skin turning gray. Wilson performed CPR on Tayte and the boy began to cry and take several full breaths, the police report said. As Tayte started breathing, paramedics arrived.

Q: I will be paying half of my grandchild's tuition for the school year 2013-2014, a total of $20,000. Do I need to make sure that I pay no more than $14,000 this year so I don't trigger any taxes? Or can I make the check payable to the school and pay the full amount in 2013 without tax liability? - M.R, DeBary A: The second option is the way to go. If you pay an educational institution directly for the tuition of your grandchild, it does not count as a gift to him for gift tax purposes.

The word is out that Chelsea Clinton is with child, making the favorite Democratic presidential nominee a soon-to-be grandmother. The headlines were inevitable - "Grandma Hillary" - followed by the similarly crucial question: Will being a grandmother help or hurt Hillary Clinton's chances in the 2016 election? Note: We do not yet have another Clinton presidential candidacy, but we may as well have. She's running in the American mind if not in fact. Other questions have run the gamut from "Will Hillary give up her presidential aspirations once she's a grandmother?"

Every year, when we decorated the Christmas tree, our seven children would bicker over whose turn it was to hang Grandma's ornament on the tree. The ornament was a treasured glass circus elephant made many years ago by German craftsmen. The elephant was painted blue, in circus attire. My mother-in-law had purchased it in the 1920s, just after she was married, making it more than 90 years old. Such decorations were common back then, usually sold in boxes of four or six that contained glass ornaments of perhaps a pickle, Santa and a Christmas tree.

HOW IS it that, on my street, grandmas take care of their sons' and daughters' kids neArly every day of the week, and don't get paid for it?Zoe Baird, Kimba Wood and probably many others would be smart to get a grandma.Frank X. SchroederORLANDO

WE LOVE the Orlando Magic and think it is time to stop all the name-calling and finger-pointing. Let's get on to a winning, not a whining, team. I'm a grandma and never had a lot of time to be a fan, but now I do and I love all the Magic team and Brian Hill, too.We, as parents, don't always approve of what our own children say and do, but we don't turn against them, and we still love them. The Magic are like a part of our family. Let's give them the encouragement and our support, now more than ever.

A 64-year-old Daytona Beach woman stopped a fleeing drug suspect on Tuesday by holding him at gunpoint, according to a ClickOrlando.com report. According to the report, grandmother Karen Granville told 22-year-old Roderick Willis that if he didn't stop running "you're going to be dead where you stand. " Read the full report at ClickOrlando.com

A 69-year-old Ormond Beach, who recently began taking swimming lessons, apparently drowned this morning in the swimming pool at her home, Ormond Beach police said. Chantel Arnett was found unresponsive in the backyard pool. Rescue workers started CPR and rushed her to a hospital where she died, Ormond Beach police Lt. Kenny Hayes said. "She contacted her husband who was at work this morning and told him that she planned to go swimming," Hayes said. "They agreed that she should stay in the shallow end of the pool.

A 3-year-old girl drowned in a pool at her grandmother's Daytona Beach home tonight, police said. Police were called to the home on Palmetto Avenue about 6:10 p.m. tonight. Investigators said the girl, Laela McGlothren, and an infant sibling were being watched by their grandmother. Police say Laela asked her grandmother if she could play in the yard. The grandmother said she could, investigators said, asking the child to stay away from the pool. Grandmother later found the girl floating in the pool, according to police.

To the untrained eye, it's just a ring. A small piece of metal twisted around four colored stones. But Hannah Runge knows better. It was her grandmother's, who died of bone cancer on Sept. 11, and with one touch the Orange City University volleyball player is flooded with memories. "She went to every home game," said Runge, a senior setter committed to Franklin Pierce in New Hampshire. "When she was passing, before every game I'd ask her if it was OK if I could go play.

Q: I will be paying half of my grandchild's tuition for the school year 2013-2014, a total of $20,000. Do I need to make sure that I pay no more than $14,000 this year so I don't trigger any taxes? Or can I make the check payable to the school and pay the full amount in 2013 without tax liability? - M.R, DeBary A: The second option is the way to go. If you pay an educational institution directly for the tuition of your grandchild, it does not count as a gift to him for gift tax purposes.

Here are Orlando Fringe Festival shows that are getting additional performances post-Fringe. • "Dance For Grandma" will be perfomed at 9:15 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at Breakthough Theatre of Winter Park, 419A W. Fairbanks Ave. Winter Park. All tickets $10. Call 409-920-4034. That follows already-announced performances of "Boogie Shoes" and "The Happy Pink Girl Sings" earlier in the evening. • Also already announced are revivals of "I U We" at Breakthrough Theatre and one performance this Sunday of "6 Guitars" at the State Theater.

My brother, cousins and I would put on a holiday pageants for our grandparents, complete with poetry, quick changes and musical numbers. So I can relate to Scott Whittemore's utterly charming "Dance for Grandma," which takes its name from his childhood displays of talent. But my nostalgia is not what makes this show so affecting: It's Whittemore's unassuming charm, his low-key - almost sheepish - delivery, and in no small measure his musical ability. With a wink to the audience, he strums the ukulele and croons "My Grandma's Cooler Than Yours" or a favorite bedtime lullaby: "Let's Go Kill Some Nazis.

Everybody has a hero, an idol, someone they can look up to when things get rough. For me, my grandma is my hero; when the going gets tough and I'm not tough enough to get going, I look to my grandma for inspiration. My grandmother, born and raised in China, did not have the greatest experiences while growing up, what with the Japanese attempts to take over the country and the introduction of Mao Zedong and his communist regime. Throughout her childhood, my grandmother lost family, friends and neighbors, including her younger brother.

If Bertha Bea were asked for a scouting report on her granddaughter, it might go something like this. Unselfish, as shown by her holding Orange County's career assists record . . . Shortest player on Dr. Phillips' roster, at 5 feet 7, but had people looking up to her. . . . Don't get in her way, either on the court or at the mall . . . Loves to shop, but she cherishes memories of winning three state titles with teammates most. Bea doesn't miss much when it comes to DP senior Sydnei McCaskill, the All-Central Florida girls basketball Player of the Year.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Central Florida grandmother accused of trying to sell her grandson for $30,000 is free on bail. Authorities say 45-year-old Patty Bigbee left the Volusia County Branch Jail on Sunday after her $100,000 bail was posted. Bigbee was arrested in November when she handed the 2-month-old over to a Tampa area couple in a Volusia County shopping center parking lot. It was unclear who posted bail for Bigbee. Jail officials say Bigbee's boyfriend, 42-year-old Lawrence Works, remains in jail with no bail allowed.

When Margaret Killingbeck told a friend that she had become a grandmother three times in one day, the friend assumed one of Killingbeck's seven children had given birth to triplets. Wrong. Instead, three of her children living in three different cities across Canada had become a parent within 12 hours of each other. At 10:44 a.m. last Thursday in Calgary, Reanada Erica Brock Killingbeck was born. At 5:30 p.m. in Missisissauga, Ontario, Kyle Lloyd Rantucci arrived. And at 10:18 p.m. in Ottawa, Adam Scott Hodgins came on the scene.

ST. CLOUD – After finding bicycles in her back yard, a St. Cloud grandmother called the Osceola County Sheriff's Office last month to say her granddaughter might be a thief, arrest records show. The tip led to the arrest of Jacqueline Young, the woman's 27-year-old grand-daughter, as well as two co-defendants who are charged with 20 burglaries, according to sheriff's spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain. Investigators recovered numerous GPS devices, cameras and other items taken during a series of car burglaries, Lizasuain said.

John L. Evans Jr., in his My Word column on Dec. 31, encouraged us to dream, write down those dreams and take action upon them. What struck a chord with me was his placing importance on the written word. I'm a strong advocate of writing. Evans mused about what will matter in the years to come, and I say what will matter is what will last and endure the test of time. In recent years, I spent many hours transcribing my grandmother's poems that my mother had kept. I never met my grandmother, as she died in 1925, but I came to know her by what she wrote in the late 1800s and early 1900s.